Period 20, Feb~5, Mar, 2009

Distributions

Openmoko continues it's work on Om2009 release - On the release plan, Openmoko is going to put FSO milestone 5.5, the stable kernel, paroli and the new xorg-glamo drivers together and make most stable distro ever. The builds in March will be called Alpha builds, and will receive only partial testing. Start with Beta builds and full testing in April. From then on only critical features and bug fixes will be backported into the branch. At the end of May, release candidates (RC builds) will start generating.

Applications

Application Updates

Mokometeo 0.2 the small python/GTK application fetching the weather forecast
from Yahoo weather pages,has been released with some improvements and bug
fixes.
Changes that went in are

A new version of the orrery sky-chart program has been released. In addition to several bug fixes, the new version includes support for displaying informal constellations (asterisms like the Big Dipper), a new to-scale display of the Solar System, information about the number of satellites used for the position fix in GPS mode and better support for displaying stars too faint for the unaided eye to see. Visit http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Orrery for more details.

Community

Everyone can add test results of the browser compatibility to any of the distributions being used so that we may find the one that has the most potential and can be developed to a actual working browser.

5) Mid April: GSM buzz-fix party in Braunschweig, Germany Daniel Williams has
been glad to perform buzz fixes for phones that needs the fix.In order to gauge
interest and plan ahead with respect to ordering
Resistors/Capacitors he would like to know how many phones would come.If you
are interested and would show up please mail him privately and also give
information on how many phones you would bring.

5) Barcelona ,18/04/2009 at Boca Nord Linux Lab :First fix it party in Spain
with the support of Openmoko at Barcelona,Boca Nord Linux Lab on 18/04/2009
more details in spanish : http://www.openmoko-spain.org/tiki-
view_blog_post.php?blogId=1&postId=7

8) 2009-06-25/26 OPEN SOURCE IN MOBILE 2009 | to be held in Westin Taipei
Taiwan | Openmoko Sean will give a speech

Competitions

Software.Cofundos.org - Following the programming contest,

software.Cofundos.org will help
to boost any idea one has in mind and give an opportunity to earn some money
for people who have the time/skills you may not have.This is a great platform
for discussing and enriching ideas on upcoming/existing projects.

New application contest organized by Rakshat Hooja

'Call Recorder cum Dictaphone Application for the Freerunner' on
cofundus.org.Any one who wishes to contribute their time/skills and also get
more details can check the following link -
http://www.cofundos.org/project.php?id=154

Period 20, Feb~5, Mar, 2009

Distributions

Openmoko continues it's work on Om2009 release - On the release plan, Openmoko is going to put FSO milestone 5.5, the stable kernel, paroli and the new xorg-glamo drivers together and make most stable distro ever. The builds in March will be called Alpha builds, and will receive only partial testing. Start with Beta builds and full testing in April. From then on only critical features and bug fixes will be backported into the branch. At the end of May, release candidates (RC builds) will start generating.

Applications

Application Updates

Mokometeo 0.2 the small python/GTK application fetching the weather forecast
from Yahoo weather pages,has been released with some improvements and bug
fixes.
Changes that went in are

-added some "print" in the code
- debug the .mokometeo folder ; put the config folder in

/home/root/.mokometeo/ instead of /.mokometeo/

-test if the connection to internet is ok. If not, display question marks
-backup the data each time data is downloaded and displayed. This data is

used on the next Mokometeo startup
-added the date and time when the data has been downloaded

A new version of the orrery sky-chart program has been released. In addition to several bug fixes, the new version includes support for displaying informal constellations (asterisms like the Big Dipper), a new to-scale display of the Solar System, information about the number of satellites used for the position fix in GPS mode and better support for displaying stars too faint for the unaided eye to see. Visit http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Orrery for more details.

Community

Everyone can add test results of the browser compatibility to any of the distributions being used so that we may find the one that has the most potential and can be developed to a actual working browser.

5) Mid April: GSM buzz-fix party in Braunschweig, Germany Daniel Williams has
been glad to perform buzz fixes for phones that needs the fix.In order to gauge
interest and plan ahead with respect to ordering
Resistors/Capacitors he would like to know how many phones would come.If you
are interested and would show up please mail him privately and also give
information on how many phones you would bring.

5) Barcelona ,18/04/2009 at Boca Nord Linux Lab :First fix it party in Spain
with the support of Openmoko at Barcelona,Boca Nord Linux Lab on 18/04/2009
more details in spanish : http://www.openmoko-spain.org/tiki-
view_blog_post.php?blogId=1&postId=7

8) 2009-06-25/26 OPEN SOURCE IN MOBILE 2009 | to be held in Westin Taipei
Taiwan | Openmoko Sean will give a speech

Competitions

Software.Cofundos.org - Following the programming contest,

software.Cofundos.org will help
to boost any idea one has in mind and give an opportunity to earn some money
for people who have the time/skills you may not have.This is a great platform
for discussing and enriching ideas on upcoming/existing projects.

New application contest organized by Rakshat Hooja

'Call Recorder cum Dictaphone Application for the Freerunner' on
cofundus.org.Any one who wishes to contribute their time/skills and also get
more details can check the following link -
http://www.cofundos.org/project.php?id=154